1999 ChiKA Meetings

Meeting Date	Speaker	Topic
January 19, 2008	Round Table	We are privileged to have so many expert breeders as members of our club. We arranged a roundtable comprised of someone knowledgable in each of these areas: mop spawners, peat spawners, fry care and feeding, and live foods. We had 26 people attending, including Craig Rees and John Aldrich from the Minnesota Killie Keepers Club. The auction was one of the largest ones ever. Despite bitterly cold and blustery weather, 25 intrepid souls from the Illinois-Indiana line to the Quad Cities to the Twin Cities showed up for a breeders’ round-table. Just to show that the breeding killies talked about were no flukes, ten styros with assorted critters and plants came along for the ride. If styros could sneer, they laughed in the face of adversity. The auction included: Aplocheilus lineatus red, Aphyosemion australe gold lyretail 3 pairs, A. australe gold lyretail youngsters, A. australe BSWG, A. australe chocolate, A. kekemense, A. louessense Malinga, A. (Chrom.) poliacki Mile 29, A.(Chrom.) splendopleure Tiko green 2 bags, A. striatum Lambaréné, Austrolebias nigripinnis Villa Soriano, Epiplatys dageti monroviae, Fundulopanchax gardneri gold, German import, Fp. gardneri gold (yellow and red strips in unpaired fins) German import, Fp.gardneri Makurdi, Fp. puerzli Yebeni trio, Fp. sjoestedti, Fp. walkeri orange, Nothobranchius kafuensis Kayuni State Farm, Scriptaphyosemion cauveti Bar. Loire GRCH 93/239, A very useful Hydrosponge filter for an 10 or 20-gallon aquarium, 5 sets of four petri dishes (suitable for drying out eggs and covering jars), Broadleaf water sprite, perhaps Ceratopteris cornuta, Java moss 3 bags, Najas guadalupensis (Southern Naiad) 2 bags, Oriental water fern, perhaps Ceratopteris thalictroides 3 bags, Riccia fluitans or crystalwort – all without a single duckweed 3 bags, Salvinia natans
March 15, 2008	Darrell Ullisch	Our speaker is Darrell Ullisch - Rivulus, Not Just Little Brown Fish. We will also be preparing for our spring show.
March 29-30, 2008	2008 Annual Show	Annual show this year at the Holiday Inn Express Our 50th Anniversary Chicago Killifish Association Annual Show is now history. I wish to thank all those attending. We had 238 entries and 117 of those were placed into the auction, along with numerous auction-only submittals, so some spectacular bargains were had at the auction. Jaap-Jan deGreef did a wonderful job letting us in on the trials and tribulations of life in Cuba and trying to collect killies there under a very "closed" government, plus some great views of killie habitats in several other countries. Original paintings for all three places in 16 classes plus 3 special awards were donated by Ken McKeighen. His skill at capturing these little jewels has grown over the years and he has recently been placed on a list of the top 20 wildlife artists in America. A truly awesome collection of plants at most reasonable prices were offered by Cory Fry of Baylees Fishees. Everyone seemed to have had a good time and I wish to publicly extend my thanks to Jaap-Jan deGreef and Ken McKeighen.
May 17, 2008	Robert Steinbach	Robert Steinbach has just returned from a 3000 mile collecting trip from Illinois to Texas, along the coast to Florida, back to Texas and back to Illinois. He will do a presentation with maps, pitcher plants etc and the fish found with several kinds of plants. We will also have a critique session on the 2008 Show. Please have your good and bad points in mind so we can build on this and have an even better show in 2009. May 17th ChiKA Meeting (3rd Saturday)2:00 P.M. in Room K131 at College of DuPage.
May 23-May 25, 2008	AKA Convention	American Killifish Association 2008 Annual Convention in Syracuse, NY. See the Convention Web Site web site for more details.
July 19, 2008	Annual Picnic	Annual Picnic held at Ruth Warners' home in Machesney Park, IL.
September 20, 2008	To be announced
November 21, 2008	To be announced

2008 Meetings & Shows